Melissa McCarthy is a movie star to many, and a wife to one. The star of Disney’s live-action The Little Mermaid has been married to actor and filmmaker Ben Falcone since 2005. The couple met through their careers in comedy and they quickly fell in love. “I immediately was like, ‘Oh, he’s strange. I like him,’ ” Melissa said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show about meeting her husband. Melissa and Ben have created a happy family together that includes their daughters Vivian and Georgette.
Melissa is obviously a major star in Hollywood, but what’s most important to her in life is her husband and her children. Here is everything you need to know about Ben and his marriage to Melissa.
Ben Falcone is an actor, comedian, and filmmaker. His career started in comedy, which is how he met Melissa. As an actor, he appeared in 17 episodes of Matt LeBlanc‘s Friends spinoff, Joey. He made his directorial debut with the 2014 comedy Tammy, which starred his wife. Ben and Melissa worked together again on more comedy films including The Boss, Life of the Party, and Thunder Force. Ben also created the 2022 Netflix series God’s Favorite Idiot and played the lead role opposite his wife. Ben and Melissa own their own production company, On the Day Productions.
Melissa and Ben met in a comedy class, though they actually crossed paths a few years earlier in Illinois. Melissa was a freshman in college, while Ben was still in high school. At the time, Ben had quite an impression of Melissa. “She was very, very goth,” he recalled on Late Night with Seth Meyers in August 2021. “All my friends at that age were like, ‘I wish my mom would let me dress like her,’” he added.
The couple officially met in 1998 in a comedy writing class in Los Angeles. Melissa told Ellen DeGeneres years later that she thought Ben was “strange,” but she instantly liked him. They started off as friends but eventually they became a couple.
